J.r. Ylitalo, Former Envoy To Paraguay

February 20, 1987|By New York Times News Service.

WASHINGTON — J. Raymond Ylitalo, former United States ambassador to Paraguay, has died of cancer at age 70.

Mr. Ylitalo, who died last week here, was a career Foreign Service officer who joined the State Department in 1946. He was named ambassador to Paraguay in 1969. From 1973 until he retired in 1976, he served in Toronto.